Re: 2.6.8.1-ck4

[Joshua Schmidlkofer <menion@asylumwear.com>]

I don't know what or why, but I am experiancing a nightmare with 
interactivity and heavy nfs use.   I am using Gentoo, and I have my 
portage tree exported from a central server.   Trying to do an emerge 
update world is taking forever.

During the time it is scanning the portage tree it takes 2 - 3 minutes 
to load Firefox.   It also took almost 5 minuts to load GAIM.  Once GAIM 
loaded, none of the screens would paint.  I halted the emerge and 
instantly Gaim painted and all the web pages I was waiting for in 
firefox finished.   So I unleashed emerge again, and tried to load more 
local-only apps.  Same problem.  Horrible delays. Halt emerge, and boom, 
everything snappy and fast.

So, as long as I don't use NFS, this is spectacular, but NFS access is 
murdering me.

In any case, I would take from recommendations.  For testing, etc.  I am 
on the list, but if there is testing, please CC my address.

CPU: Pentium 4 - 1.7Ghz.


memory - [swap usage is already much improved]:
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        775200     499796     275404          0       5200     126816
-/+ buffers/cache:     367780     407420
Swap:       799992          0     799992


Root:
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              39G   26G   13G  67% /